This story starts out kind of like the Alanis Morrisette song "Ironic". Margaret is terrified of flying and her boyfriend Chip, who is learning to become a pilot, has this brilliant idea to take her up in his plane to purpose. Except when the plane crashed down, she didn't think "Well isn't this nice." The crash turns her world upside down and changes everything. How does one survive such a traumatic accident?
Be prepared to experience every possible emotion imaginable with this book. I felt anxiety, sadness, anger, fear, relief, hurt, desperation.....and somehow even managed to laugh out loud at a few parts. Readers will fall so deeply in love with Maggie as she struggles to find out who she is after the accident. The characters were so realistic, which made it so much easier to fall even more in love with this book. Katherine Center may very well have just written the best book of 2018. I dare you to read this book without feeling some kind of overwhelming emotion.
What I really liked the most about this book though was that it also had a message to go with it. Maybe your situation is similar to Maggie's or maybe it's nothing like it at all readers can find hope in this story. On the very last page, in the epilogue, there's a few sentences that just reverberated through my head and I had to go back and read it a few more times just to really appreciate it. "Is everything perfect? Hell, no. Everything's a mess. A crazy, galloping, heartbreaking mess. You can't fix everything. Not even close. But you can look for reasons to be grateful. More than that, you can work to create them." I don't need to be in a plane crash for those words to hit home. Thank you, Katherine Center for your words of wisdom and this glorious masterpiece.
Be prepared to experience every possible emotion imaginable with this book. I felt anxiety, sadness, anger, fear, relief, hurt, desperation.....and somehow even managed to laugh out loud at a few parts. Readers will fall so deeply in love with Maggie as she struggles to find out who she is after the accident. The characters were so realistic, which made it so much easier to fall even more in love with this book. Katherine Center may very well have just written the best book of 2018. I dare you to read this book without feeling some kind of overwhelming emotion.
What I really liked the most about this book though was that it also had a message to go with it. Maybe your situation is similar to Maggie's or maybe it's nothing like it at all readers can find hope in this story. On the very last page, in the epilogue, there's a few sentences that just reverberated through my head and I had to go back and read it a few more times just to really appreciate it. "Is everything perfect? Hell, no. Everything's a mess. A crazy, galloping, heartbreaking mess. You can't fix everything. Not even close. But you can look for reasons to be grateful. More than that, you can work to create them." I don't need to be in a plane crash for those words to hit home. Thank you, Katherine Center for your words of wisdom and this glorious masterpiece.